FARMINGTON, Mo.—Authorities are piecing together how five inmates escaped from a Missouri jail.
The inmates escaped from the the St. Francois County Jail in Farmington, about 75 miles south of St. Louis on Tuesday evening, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Gregory Armstrong told the newspaper that the inmates got into a cell that was supposed to be closed off due to plumbing repairs, removed the sink and toilet, climbed through the wall and made it down from the roof using a ladder that a contractor had left standing against the building. Jail cameras that would have captured them leaving were down due to the construction….